University of North Carolina Greensboro - Pine Needles Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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aniaru ■Jo all idealistic pioneers in democratic progress and in furtherance of litu in education, hiqh tribute is paid. J or it id to them that lA c oman 5 , owed iti birth. (Established bu legislative enactment Jebruaru 19, 1891, ad the J tate V formal and . Industrial School, first institution created bu the J tate of r forth Carolina for higher education of women, the T] lA oman ' s L ollege of the University of rjorth L arolit 1 its fiftieth

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FOREWORD Jrn tkis, tke year in which our country had become involved in war ana in which there ii turmoil and trouble the world over, we find we are faced with problems we had never dreamed we would have to face. Jtn iuch a period of uncertainty and confusion, we welcome the opportunity to look back over tke past on the occasion of celebrat- ing tke Zriftietk Anniversary of tke founding of our college. lA e look back, not as a way of escaping tke problems we face today, but as a source of receiving inspiration which may be got only from a keritage as rich and great as ours. eJLookina at our kistory we find an institution built with hard work, sacrifice, determination, and love, and find in it a pattern by wkick perkapi we, as tke potential post-war generation, may rebuild tke world. 352278

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Joarevmci itemplateS a ha S§iS-£ 1 ituru of aratifuina achievement. cltlzeni votina e.s.pu C reensboro, centrally located, wad chosen as the location of the institution, the $30,000 in bonds for the first two buildinaS, and and l . SJ. ( - rau of IKaieiah aivina a ten-acre site. other individual, Charles Jjuncan fl ' IcJrver was responsible ll lore than anu I fc for founding the coileae of which he became first president. Uther pioneers in public education, Charles B. Jtucoch, (Ldwin -A. -Alderman, and tfames Uj. tfouner, lent